RT Book
T1 State of fear: policing a postcolonial city
A1 Barker, Joshua 1967-
LA English
PP Durham London
PB Duke University Press
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1883824494
AB "State of Fear is an ethnography of policing in Bandung, Indonesia, during the latter years of President Suharto's authoritarian New Order administration. Drawing on fieldwork primarily from the 1990s, Joshua Barker examines the complex relationships between vigilante groups and the regimes of the state, showing how fear and violence are produced and reproduced through everyday practices of rule. The book traces a path through local institutions and sites to demonstrate the regular use of policing technologies and tactics in Indonesian cities, framing its analysis in terms of surveillance and territoriality. Through the book's three parts, Barker explores security as a territorial function, constructs a genealogy of police practices and urban surveillance within the context of colonial rule, and charts the development of postcolonial policing practices. In doing so, Barker juxtaposes the dualist struggle between a modernist abstractionist approach to urban order and a decentralized territorial version, engaging ideas of power and highlighting the global effects of everyday policing"--
AB Joshua Barker reckons with how fear and violence are produced and reproduced through everyday practices of rule and control by examining the ethnographic and historical genealogies of Indonesian policing
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN KNW3022
SN 9781478030768
SN 9781478026525
K1 Law Enforcement : Indonesia : Bandung : History : 20th century
K1 Vigilantism : Indonesia : History : 20th century
K1 Postcolonialism : Indonesia
K1 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Law Enforcement
K1 Police & security services
K1 Polizei und Sicherheitsdienste
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services
K1 Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
K1 Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie
K1 Indonesia : Politics and government : 1966-1998
K1 Indonesia : Politics and government : 1998-
K1 Indonesia
K1 Indonesien
K1 Bandung : Sicherheit und Ordnung : Polizei